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JOHN WALKER & SONS, LTD

... JOHN WALKER SONS, LTD JOHN WALKER SONS, LTD., Scotch Whisky Distillers, Kilmarnock, Scotland DRURY LANE THEATRE where Nell Gwynne first attracted notice as an orange-seller, and made her first stage appearance in 1665. The famous theatre was first opened ...

Published: Wednesday 16 May 1923
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 83 | Page: 43 | Tags: Illustrations 

GUINNESS AND OYSTERS

... Guinness and OYSTERS G.E. 55 Guinness and OYSTERS G.E. 55 r^ The sign of a famous old Inn (no longer existing) in Drury Lane, London. Ilie Whistling Oyster Presumably the oyster was whistling for a Guinness. For Guinness and oysters are inseparable. Epicures ...

Published: Wednesday 04 September 1929
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 101 | Page: 43 | Tags: Illustrations 

Graphic

... romance The Three Musketeers, and Miss Lilian Davies appears in this character in the musical-comedy version of the story at Drury Lane. Our readers will be interested by the contemporary portrait of Anne of Austria, daughter of Philip IV. of Spain and wife ...

Published: Wednesday 21 May 1930
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 102 | Page: 26 | Tags: Illustrations 

FASHIONS BY D. LANE: SOME PERIOD FROCKS OF TO-DAY

... DOWAGER. I ____________ [Photographs by Foul sham and Banfield Ltd.\ Period dressing has invaded pantomime, as our page of Drury Lane celebrities shows The first three photographs illustrate the varied j wardrobe of Miss Lily Long, who plays one of Cinderella's ...

Published: Wednesday 21 January 1920
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 125 | Page: 12 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE GREAT DUSE

... her ordinary repertoire. MR. KDWAltD VliOOM, AUTHOR OF THE PIECE, WHO l'UAYS ADRIAN DE MARSAC IN MARSAC OF GASCONY, AT DRURY LANE. portrait reproduced hp permission of the Thomas and IVyllc Lithograph if Company, New York, ...

Published: Wednesday 25 April 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 117 | Page: 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

CUFF COMMENTS

... Tompkins of Drury Lane. He fed upon pie and turkey, Not wisely, but oh so well. And felt uncom monly perky Until he be gan to swell. But at last the veterinary Surgeons can smile again, F'or they 've rescued the Little Mary Of Tompkins of Drury Lane Why do ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1912
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 850 | Page: 12 | Tags: Illustrations 

GRANT MACDONALD A QUINTET OF STARS

... player in 44 An Inspector Calls recently at the New. And Mary Martiu, singer for whom Noel Coward wrote 44 Pacific 1860 at Drury Lane Constance Cummings, actress of subtlety in 44 Clutterbuck at Wyndham's Yolande Donlan, incomparable doll of 44 Born Yesterday ...

Published: Wednesday 16 April 1947
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 114 | Page: 17 | Tags: Illustrations 

WHITBREAD

... Then, in middle age, fate directed that he should become the guiding influence in a very different enterprise. In 1809, Drury Lane Theatre had been es roye by fire, dashing to the ground the hopes and fortune of its Manager, Sheridan. Sheridan however ...

Published: Wednesday 20 July 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 129 | Page: 39 | Tags: Illustrations 

PAST HENRY THE FIFTH'S

... recollection. Sir Augustus Harris could not have opened his successful Drury Lane management with a more patriotic play than Shakspere's Henry the Fifth. W, C. F. REDUCED FACSIMILE OF A DRURY LANE RL AY- BILL DATED NOV. 17, 1879. ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1900
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 794 | Page: 28 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE HEAD OF ENSA

... 1905. He organised a concert party and played to troops at the Front in the 1914-18 war. He was knighted in 1935 and at Drury Lane, where, as illustrated by Topolski in our last week's issue, ENSA shoivs are 44 manufactured Sir Seymour occupies Sheridan1 ...

Published: Wednesday 19 February 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 180 | Page: 13 | Tags: Illustrations